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Steel Piston and Coating System Reduce Cost of Ownership for CV Engines

Requirements for heavy-duty diesel engines are driving a system approach for Mahle’s piston and coating development. The MonoLite piston combined with a new...

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Software

The Evolving Tire-Development Paradigm

Engineers working in today’s vehicle-development environment are faced with a unique challenge in relation to prototype vehicles: the cost of constructing prototypes and assemblies limits their...

Technical Innovation

Propulsion

Cummins Goes for Big Power, Low Emissions with All-New X-Series Heavy-Duty Diesels

Calling its new-generation X series heavy duty diesel engines symbolic of a “new era at Cummins,” executives and engineers for the Columbus, IN-based...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Jaguar Land Rover Constructs Slovakian Manufacturing Plant to Support 'A Truly Global Business'

Construction has started on a new Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing facility in Nitra, Slovakia. According to the company, the 300,000 m²...

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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Anti-Friction Coating

Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, MI) offers a new silver-metallic color for a proven Molykote brand anti-friction coating (AFC) to enhance design options for reducing friction, noise and wear on various automotive components. According to Dow, the new silver-colored Molykote D-709 anti-friction coating offers the same...

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Automotive

SAE Survey: Mobility Engineers Getting Younger

SAE International recently released the results of its 2016 Mobility Engineering Professionals Salary Survey that also includes an interactive online Salary Calculator. Among the survey's key...

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Materials

Non-Hazardous Specialty Polymers

EpoxySet Inc. (Lincoln, RI) has released SetWORX specialty polymers, a line of high-performance materials. According to the company, SetWORX was developed to be non-hazardous for shipping, therefore reducing...

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Transportation

Evaluating Real-World Aerodynamics for a Class 8 Tractor-Trailer

Researchers from Exa Corp. and Navistar compared a model in wind tunnel (WT) testing to computational fluid dynamic (CFD) WT over the entire yaw curve. Their study also...

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Automotive

Cyber Assurance Test Bed for Heavy Vehicle Controls

To help connect security researchers to heavy trucks, a remotely accessible test bed is prototyped by researchers at the University of Tulsa, Colorado State University and Synercon...

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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Standing Still May Improve Antennas That Scan in All Directions

Antennas often need to trace circles in the sky. For example, radar arrays atop air-traffic control towers rotate to sweep signals in all directions. But spinning large objects...

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Alternative Found for Nuclear Weapon Detection

One of the most critical issues the United States faces today is preventing terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into its ports. To this end, the U.S. Security and Accountability for Every...

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Shrinking the Inside of an Explosion

Testing explosions is epic science. The most detailed studies of explosive charges have been conducted at national laboratories using a gun as big as a room to fire a flat bullet – the flyer plate,...

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Green Design & Manufacturing

Creating a ‘Green’ Value Stream with LPPD

James Morgan, Ph.D, is a senior advisor for lean product and process development at the Lean Enterprise Institute. A former global director of Body Exterior, Safety, and Stamping Engineering at...

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Green Design & Manufacturing

Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in U.S. Diesel-Emissions Coverup

A veteran Volkswagen AG engineer pleaded guilty in federal court to a criminal charge for his involvement in the German automaker’s ongoing diesel-emissions scandal,...

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Automotive

Mazda's 2017 G-Vectoring Control Brings Dynamic Refinement

Spend time with Mazda's talented vehicle-dynamics engineers as they fine-tune a new model before production release and you may hear the Japanese term jinba ittai—the concept of...

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Electronics & Computers

Insurers Look to Partner with OEMs, App Providers to Meet Connected-Car Challenges

The connected car’s emergence is as disruptive for insurance companies as it is for automakers. Usage based insurance (UBI) holds a major role in future...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Mahindra Connects Vehicles Via Cloud-Based Technology Platform

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (M&M) has launched DiGiSENSE, a technology solution that connects Mahindra vehicles, tractors, trucks and construction equipment to the cloud....